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Beginner Easy DIY Christmas Pocket Album with Barbara Kind
Hello crafty friends! This is Babi and I am so excited to share with you a beginner easy DIY Christmas pocket album with What a Fun! collection. Cover Steps Trim white cardstock to 3 ¾ x5 ” to create the main panel. Blend Faded Jeans, Chipped Sapphire and Ground Espresso Distress Oxide over the panel to create the wintery background. Use trees and grass stencil from you stash with Distress Black Soot and Forest Moss to create more contrast with the background. Sprinkle white paint for a snow effect. Attach the die-cut legs with an eyelet to the panel. Place the upper body on top of the legs with…
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Oh What Fun! Cards for Beginners with Jung
Hello crafty friends! It’s Jung, and I am so happy to be returning for another guest post on the Spellbinders blog. If you’d like to follow my crafty projects, my blog is jungahsang.wordpress.com, and my Instagram is @junglebarrya. Today, I’m working with some die-cuts from the Oh What Fun! collection. I will be showing 3 different and easy ways to use these fun diecuts on cards. For my first card, I made an interactive mini slimline card. To begin my card, I trimmed a piece of Cosmic Sky cardstock using one of the precision layering mini slimline dies. I wanted to add some interest to the background, so I used…
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Crafting for Beginners: Gnomie Christmas Dance 3 Ways
Hello there, Michelle Short here to share some inspiration using Gnomie Christmas Dance Printed Die Cuts from the Oh What Fun Collection. This pack contains 52 colorful die-cut pieces ready to use in different ways. These are perfect to use if you are beginner but are also quick and fun to use if you are not! Today I have a card, gift tag and gift bag to share with you, but they are perfect for all sorts of other crafts too from journals to gift wrap! BEARY MERRY CHRISTMAS For my first project, I wanted to create a card. I took a panel of white cardstock and added ink blending…
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Christmas Flourish Collection Inspiration with Michelle Woerner
Hi crafty friends! I’m Michelle Woerner from Stop and Stamp the Roses and I’m super excited to be guest blogging today. I’ll be sharing 3 cards I made with the new Christmas Flourish Collection. Christmas Flourish Collection is designed by Becca Feeken and features six die sets and one 2D embossing Folder. It has an elegant feel to it that can be dressed up or kept pretty simple. Perfect for all Christmas card styles! Take a look at what I made. MAKING SPIRITS BRIGHT CARD For my first card, I used Flourished Ornament Slimline die set. I layered together the Frame Outline and Diagonal Fluted Frame Insert and die cut…
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Christmas Flourish Cards Inspiration with Sandi MacIver
Hi card makers and welcome back. It’s Sandi MacIver here and I’m excited to be back with another post for you. I’m creating with the new Christmas Flourish Collection from Beeca Feeken. There are seven new die sets and a fabulous embossing folder in this release full of Christmas images and sentiments to inspire you in your holiday cardmaking. I picked my three favorites and created cards in a traditional color scheme to share with you today. My Colors are Phone Booth, Portabello, White, Rainforest, Fern, and some Mirror Gold for highlights. The coordinating Holly Flourish Embossing Folder released in this set is the new 5.50 x 8.50 versatile 2D…
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Christmas Flourish Collection – Holiday Card Inspiration with Annie Williams
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m excited to be back on the blog today to share a couple of projects using the new Christmas Flourish Collection by Becca Feeken. The sweet holiday designs and gorgeous background frames inspired me to mix all of the products in this collection to create three pretty holiday cards in a variety of sizes. Snowman Joy Mini Slimline Card I loved all of the sweet details in the snowman from the Let It Snowman Die Set. Here I added this adorable guy to a pretty background with lots of layers and texture for a rustic holiday mini slimline card. Die cut white, Blue…
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Magical Deer: Christmas and Beyond with Joan Bardee
Joan Bardee here and I am honored to share 3 ways to use the gorgeous Magical Deer Etched Dies from the Winter Tales Collection. They were designed by the talented Zsoka Marko and fit beautifully with the rest of that Collection. The first thing I thought of when I saw this die set was folk art. After looking at dozens of folk-art designs on Pinterest, I was inspired to make a few cards with dark backgrounds. After years of making white-only backgrounds, it’s fun to try something new. For these cards, I used black, but any dark background, particularly a deep cranberry, green, or navy would be awesome. Magical Christmas…
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Nordic Ornaments 3 Ways. Christmas Cardmaking With Michelle Short
Hello there, Michelle Short here to share some inspiration using the Nordic Ornaments Etched Dies from the Winter Tales Collection by Zsoka Marko. The whole collection is amazing, but I am focussing on the Nordic Ornaments today to share three different ways to use them. SEASON’S GREETINGS For my first project, I wanted to go with a Nordic feel, so chose a color palette of red and blue, with lots of white space. I die cut the longer of the two Nordic Ornaments twice from Cosmic Sky, Glacier and Poppy Field Cardstock. The toppers were die-cut using Brushed Silver Cardstock. I assembled and adhered them using Bearly Art Glue, raising…
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Santa Paws Unboxing 3 ways with Jung
Hello crafty friends! It’s Jung, and I am so happy to be returning for another guest post on the Spellbinders blog. If you’d like to follow my crafty projects, my blog is jungahsang.wordpress.com, and my Instagram is @junglebarrya. Today, I’m working with the Holiday Cheer Enclosed collection. I will specifically be showcasing 3 ways to use the Santa Paws stamp set. For my first card, I made a dimensional card. I used the stamp set as it was meant, for the 3D surprise box. I used a couple of stamps on the 3D box, and I also added a sentiment on the card. To begin my card, I started diecutting.…
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Border Dies 3 Ways – Christmas Cardmaking with Brenda Noelke
Hello, crafty friends! Brenda Noelke here from My PaperCut Creations! I’m so excited to be guest posting on the Spellbinders blog today! I am sharing three ways to use Winters Borders Etched Dies featuring the Holiday Cheer Enclosed Collection! MAKE A BORDER! Let’s start with the obvious way to use border dies…as a border!! For this card, I began by stamping the adorable pup from the Christmas Pups Stamp Set onto white cardstock with Copic-friendly black ink. I colored them with Copic markers, added highlights with a white gel pen and fussy cut them out (the dies are included in the set, but I didn’t have them at the time).…
